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Lifecycle of a Health App/Device

Step 1: Purchase of the latest, greatest health app/device

Being the health conscious, pro-active individual that you are, you purchase the latest, greatest Health App/Device with the conviction that this is just the extra push you need to lose those few extra pounds for changing your life!

Step 2: It works, you are activated!

It works, you are activated and off to the races! You move, you track, you record and you analyze your data. You repeat this cycle and empower yourself with new knowledge and health performance statistics!

Step 3: A new/better device/app comes along (aka return to Step 1)

You know how it goes...shiny new things...so hard to deny. Besides, you don't want to lose your edge, time to upgrade!

But wait! Don't lose that data!

Use Health eProfile to store your data before you move on. Good health is about the long march. We'll help you export your data and get it uploaded to your eProfile. We'll keep it secure and even help you analyze it. You never know, someday it might decrease your health insurance premiums!

Have you considered your privacy rights when using birth control apps?

Assessment of a Wired.com article by Megan Molteni

Abstract from the article titled, "Before Using Birth Control Apps Consider Your Privacy" posted on Wired.com: "Natural Cycles’ privacy policy states that in using the app each user grants the company and any of its partners broad rights to “use, reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, communicate to the public, and otherwise utilize and exploit a user's anonymized information.”

Subjective: This article points out important considerations for people utilizing birth control and related apps that require the user to provide a significant amount of personal information. The somewhat galling aspect of which is that many users pay subscriptions for these services that in the end could make no small amount of money off this data.

Objective:Megan Moltini provides a balanced description of the pros and cons in using these types of apps. It is pointed out that many are not actively selling personal data at the time of the article and that the data they retrieve helps to provide a better product for its users. However, the potential for secondary use of the data for other unknown purposes is there.

Assessment: With statements such as this, users need to make educated choices about the apps that they choose to share their personal health information with: “Berglund says Natural Cycles’ only revenue stream at the moment is the app’s subscription service, and that selling customer data to third parties isn’t part of the company’s business plan. “We’ve never shared any data for financial purposes,” she says. But that may not always be the case. “I can’t say we’ll never share data, there’s no guarantees in life of what will happen.”

Plan: It has become very apparent that our personal data is being collected at great scale whether legally or illegally and it is important that we make active and educated choices about the health apps we use before automatically clicking the “Ok” or “I Agree” button when reviewing terms and conditions.

More links

A link to the original article on Wired.comNatural Cycles stores user data in an encrypted cloud environment, and every week a pooled, anonymized version of the data gets pulled onto the company’s local servers to run the analysis that powers its app. So if you decide you want to delete your data, it should get scrubbed from the cloud first, and then from the company’s models, during that weekly overwriting process, according to Berglund. But according to the company’s privacy policies, it’s under no obligation to delete any data it has

A link to the Electronic Privacy Information CenterEPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, DC. EPIC was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age. EPIC pursues a wide range of program activities including policy research, public education, conferences, litigation, publications, and advocacy. EPIC routinely files amicus briefs in federal courts, pursues open government cases, defends consu

A link to an article discussing Garmin's menstrual cycle tracker Starting today, Garmin Connect users can record their cycle type, symptoms and notes about their personal health. By doing so, the service will begin to predict when their next period will occur or outline windows of increased fertility. In addition, the app will surface fitness and nutrition educational content that is tailored to the user’s current phase of their cycle.

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